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CHARADES, RIDDLES, 

CONUNDEUMS, 

OLD AND NEW. 



Printed foe the "Bazaar," in Aid or the 
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. 



ST. LOUIS: 
G. I. JONES AND COMPANY. 

1878. 







Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by 

MlSS ANNIE WALL AND MlSS JENNY GLOVER, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



CONUNDRUMS. 

1. When does English butter become Irish? 

2. When is a loaf of bread inhabited ? 

3. Why is a bald-headed man like a hunting-dog ? 

4. What animals are in the clouds ? 

5. How do seamstresses resemble rascals ? 

6. Why should free seats at church be abolished? 

7. Why is a dead Irishman like a ship at sea? 

8. Why does the ocean get angry? 

9. Why are washerwomen unfeeling? 

10. When is love deformed? 

11. Why did not Louis Philippe take his umbrella when he left 
Paris ? 

12. When is the wind like a wood-cutter ? 

13. W T hy is a prudent man like a pin ? 



4 CONUNDRUMS. 

14. If you were to swallow a man, what sort of man would you 
prefer ? 

15. What was Pharaoh's chief objection to Moses ? 

16. Why may a dyspeptic hope for a long life ? 

17. Plant a puppy, and what will come up ? 

18. What remedy does an Irishman take for a scolding wife? 

19. What rose is born to blush unseen? 

20. Who first embraced ritualism ? 

21. How do we know that Moses wore a wig? 

22. Why did the man who bought a dumb-waiter return it next 
day ? 

23. Why can't I spell Cupid? 

24. What is the brightest idea of the day ? 

25. How does Patrick propose to get over his single blessedness ? 

26. Why couldn't Napoleon III. assure his life? 

27. Why are sidewalks in winter like music ? 

28. Why couldn't Eve have the measles? 

29. Why is the present moment like skim-milk ? 



cojsrurcDifras. 5 

30. When was beef-tea introduced into England? 

31. Why is chloroform like Mendelssohn? 

32. Why ought Adam to have been satisfied with his wife ? 

33. What constitutes a weighty discourse ? 

34. Why are Rochefort and his companions like a salad ? 

35. If Neptune lost his dominions, what would he say? 

36. What is the difference between the North and South Poles ? 

37. When does a cook break the game-laws ? 

38. What is the best way to double a flock of sheep ? 

39. What girl does Echo think is the best to give questions their 
answer ? 

40. What is an old lady in the midst of the river like ? 

41. What lady of the Dante family is oftenest spoken of? 

42. Of what trade is the sun ? 

43. Why is an onion like a piano ? 

44. Why is a widower like a potato-vine ? 

45. Why should cross children be named Mary ? 

46. Why is the theater like the day of sorrow ? 



CONUNDRUMS. 

47. Why is a small melon like the cry of suffering ? 

48. Why is the soul insignificant? 

49. Why are New Bedford seamen like mourners ? 

50. Why is Benjamin Butler like an inquisitive boy ? 

51. Why is a lover like a whale ? 

52. To what department of literature do billets-doux belong i 

53. Why is a lovely woman like ambition ? 

54. Why is a parson making love like a legation ? 

55. Why is a hard-hearted man like the horizon ? 

56. Why is a tender parting like a great fuss ? 

57. Why are the Muses like a cat? 

58. When you cane a man, why do you cheat him ? 

59. Why is a fool's smart wife like a tailor? 

60. What kind of luck is most various ? 

61. Why should a chimney-sweep succeed in love ? 

62. Why is a file of cows like a famous conspirator ? 

63. How can you make Gladstone a Tory ? 

64. When is charity like a top ? 



CONUNDRUMS. i 

65. Why is a quiet conscience like an uninclosecl field? 

66. Why must Noah have been a poor mouser ? 

67. When are the little birds in debt? 

68. Why is the first chicken of a brood like the foremast of a ship ? 

69. In what color should a secret be kept? 

70. My first is a kind of batter, my second a kind of liquor, my 
whole a kind of charger. 

71. How can you make a Maltese cross? 

72. In my first my second sat: my third and fourth I ate. 

73. My first is what my second is not, my whole is put in the cor- 
ner. 



CHARADES. 

CHARADE I. 

My first is a nobleman's title, I ween, 

And the season when loveliness brightest appears ; 

My second, when mad, is a young rattle-pate, 

Whom very few love, and still fewer can hate ; 

My whole is a friend to old men and fair girls, 

To keep their heads warm, or preserve their soft curls. 

CHARADE II 

An old king of England, with violence treated, 
Endangered the weal of his soul; 

To atone for my second, my first he repeated 
Full nine times a day on my whole. 



CHARADES. 



CHARADE III. 



My first springs in the mountains, 

My second springs out of the mountains, 

My whole springs over the mountains. 

WLy first runs up the trees, 
My second runs past the trees, 
My whole spreads over the trees. 

My first has no drops, unless it drops down ; 

My second is full of drops, all invisible ; 

My whole abounds in drops, separate and visible. 

My first grows shorter and weaker as it grows older; 

My second grows longer and stronger as it grows older; 

My whole is born and dies every year, and never grows any older. 

To catch ray first, men march after it; 

To imprison my second, men make a machine in front of it; 

To capture my whole, men take a march before it. 



10 CHARADES. 

CHARADE IV. 

Brightly, brightly beautiful, my first sweeps through the sky, 
An image of beauty, transcendently fair, as it gazeth from on high ; 
Queenly she walks on the stage, in the pomp of pride and power, 
And the sparkle of diamonds lighteth round the goddess of an hour. 

Come into royal halls, my second will meet you there ; 

And there, with the noble, great, and proud, his hopes and ambitions 

are ; 
Or act on the field of fame, where marshalled armies stand, 
And the voices of trumpet and drum startle a listening land. 

Far from his native scenes, the places he loved the best, 

My whole has traced the sunset gleams to the golden gates of the 

West. 
Freighted with calmest trust, his barque did the surges brave, 
And with angels who cherish the true and just, he has passed over 

Jordan's wave. 



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CHARADE V. 

Where nimble-footed dancers bound, 
There my first \s ever found. 
Is it, then, a lady? No ! 
Though it always has a beau. 
When young ideas are taught to shoot, 
When invalids progress on foot, 
Then you see my second still 
Used for good, or used for ill. 
Without my whole no master durst 
Attempt to practice on my first. 

CHARADE VI. 

My first all travelers wish to find, 

And office-seekers wish to be ; 
My second lives but in the mind; 

It is the soul of poetry ; 
My whole is where we all have been, 
And where we ne'er shall be again. 



12 CHARADES. 



CHARADE VII. 



My first is what all true men love; 
My second oft that love doth prove ; 
My third at evening meal we do ; 
Some like my fourth at that time, too. 
My whole doth mighty states divide, 
And on it thousands daily glide. 

CHARADE VIII. 

My first is where we " take our ease," 

And oft " our warmest welcome " find ; 
My second doth not ease bestow, 

Nor there we seek a welcome kind ; 
My whole long since hath passed from earth. 

In life a sovereign rich and great, 
His wealth, also, his ruin wrought ; 

He sank beneath a piteous fate. 



A. W. 



CHARADES. 



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CHARADE IX. 

My first is but a little word. 
Yet very hard to say ; 

The lover hears with broken heart, 
And sadly turns away. 

1 Like sweet bells jangled out of tune, " 
Or rose bereft of sweet perfume, 
Such is the mind when reason's gone, 
And light and hope and memory flown. 

Through forest dark, or trackless waste, 
My whole doth idly wander ; 

The aim or purpose of his life 
He never stops to ponder. 



C. C. E. 



14 CHARADES. 



CHARADE X. 



My first, you see, is a gallant nag, 
On which you're swiftly borne ; 

Yet it another aspect wears, 
In which it bears the corn. 

My second daily woven fair, 

At night unwoven still, 
Speaks to us yet of woman's love — 

Speaks, too, of woman's will. 

My whole good housewives dread to see, 
And grasp their brooms with haste, 

As if, like witches, they would mount, 
And sweep the airy waste. 



A. W. 



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CHARADE XL 
My frrst about our heated brows 

Bids cooling breezes play: 
Or. in the hand of Spanish maid. 

Says more than tongue can say. 

In waves in sheen of silk and pearl, 

It waves when beauty calls : 
In hues that tell of far Japan 

'Tis creeping up our walls. 

My second is a simple name, 

But. if the chance should come 
By which you double it, how queer. 

The man becomes a drum. 

My zi'/iole is a something vague and strong, 

A creature light as air: 
; Tis dreadful, as was Caesar's ghost — 

Like the "White Lady" fair. 

A W. 



16 CHARADES. 

CHARADE XII. 
"M.y first, an ancient Saxon word, 
In modern parlance still is heard ; 
A verb, protean in its changes, 
As through its various forms it ranges ; 
Vext by fell doubt and indecision 
And haunted by the ghostly vision, 
Hamlet, impelled by cruel fates, 
Its meaning weighs, and hesitates. 

In torrid zones my second 's found, 
Where branching trees grow thick around ; 
Or in the orchards of the North 
From trunk and stem it gushes forth. 
Some plants there be whose bark is riven 
With many a wound and deep incision, 
To wrest from Nature what she stores, 
Concealed within the hidden pores. 



CHAKADES. 17 



My whole 's a lady dark in hue, 
Of royal race, blood bluest blue : 
With jewels decked, in rich attire, 
To gain her love let few aspire. 
Reclining on her couch she rests. 
Submissive slaves wait her behests. 
In small domain complete her sway; 
Xone her commands dare disobev. 



CHARADE XIII. 

Go where the tall ships pass, 
Where the wild waves, in mass, 

Rush on bursting with light : 
There, in that broad expanse, 
Where no shore meets the glance, 

My first is ever in sight. 



C. C. E. 



18 CHARADES. 

When the snow has gone from the mountains, 
The ice disappeared from the fountains 

Whence pure waters flow, 
When flowers are sweetest and rarest, 
And skies are bluest and fairest, 

My next you may know. 

Then measure off time with exactness, 
With nicest skill and compactness 

Let it rest on my whole; 
And while that remains unbroken, 
Each moment will give you a token 

That the hours continue to roll. 

CHARADE XIV. 

My first is a god of ancient days, 
A god whom all delight to praise — 
He had such innocent, kindly ways. 



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My next of various kinds is seen, 
Sometimes rich and sometimes mean ; 
My first its mould has often been. 

My whole is loved by old and young, 
A pleasant morsel for the tongue ; 
It has a special day among 

The days the Church has set apart 
As sacred to the soul or heart; 
To make it is a simple art. 



CHARADE XV. 

A bark from Tagus' golden strand, 
My first floats on the stream; 

Go seek it where the Emerald land 
Smiles with her brightest gleam. 



20 CHARADES. 

My second through my first pursues, 
By turns, its winding way ; 

And when descends the twilight dews, 
And Bacchus bears the sway. 

My whole the imprisoned spirit frees, 
Whilst loud the jest and song 

Are borne upon the evening breeze 
In joyous notes along. 



CHARADE XVI. 

My first is something very small — 
One would not see nor hear it fall ; 
Divide all day, divide all night, 
You cannot reach so small a mite ; 
Yet it is matter, that's conclusive, 
Of nature and of form elusive. 



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In vast infinity suspended 

My second waits till time be ended ; 

In motion slow it turns around 

In rhythmic measure, without sound. 

Wouldst thou know more, then I prefer 

To Brother Jasper to refer. 

My third moves swiftly hour by hour. 

Obedient to a secret power, 

Waiting for no man. See it go 

Into the Bay of Biscay, O ! 

Resistless round the world doth roll, 

Yet owning still a strict control. 

One day there is among a few, 

Sacred to Christian and to Jew; 

Leviticus and Acts will show 

Whatever thou mays' t care to know. 

In reading them full plain is made 

The meaning of my whole Charade. 



C. C. E. 



22 CHARADES. 



CHARADE XVII. 



"My first is fairest when 'tis budding new," 

So says Sir Walter. Who shall him gainsay ? 
Strange that a thing so frail and fair should be 

An emblem once of battle and affray. 
A floral queen, in all her varied charms, 

A Pilgrim lady, who, in years gone by, 
Where the waves beat upon New England's shore, 

Came with her soldier-husband there to die. 
My second is a Jewish maiden fair — 

Tender and pure is she from earthly stain; 
A splendid queen, whose sorrows move us still, 

Whose charms, in spite of crimes, our love constrain. 
Again, a queen whose name, of omen dread, 

Fills us with horror for her people's woe. 
"Here is my whole V\ the sad Ophelia cries, 

"Here for remembrance !" and its name you know. 

A. W. 



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CHARADE XVIII. 

My first is found by German streams, 

On golden harp he plays ; 
'Neath moonlight soft, and starry skies, 

He sings his plaintive lays. 
My second tosses on the main, 

Where England's navies sweep; 
He laughs to hear the billows roar, 

His home is on the deep. 
When Jove received immortal guests 

At his Olympian board, 
They wreathed with deathless flowers the cup 

In which my whole was poured. 
The song and merry jest went round, 

Celestial laughter rang; 
My whole was sparkling as their wit — 

Sweet as the songs they sang. 

A. W. 



24 CHARADES. 



CHARADE XIX. 



My first fills many an office good, 

Where Islam's votaries bear sway, 
Best known to us from stories told 

Of what befel in Haroun's day, 
When that great Caliph ruled the East ; 

And, walking Bagdad's streets by night, 
Brought many a crime of monstrous shape, 

And many a mirthful plot, to light. 

My second sits 'neath Egypt's sky, 

By the mysterious floods of Nile, 
In silence wrapped, save when his lips 

Are touched to music by his mother's smile. 
The sun and stars above him brightly move, 

About his feet the desert-sands are blown ; 
Noiseless the centuries flit by, and he, 

Still musing, sits upon his ancient throne. 



CHARADES. 

Son of the morning, thou art sad and lone, 
A youthful warrior thou in by-gone years : 

Thou wak'st to life when, in the whitening east, 
Each day the rosy-fingered dawn appears. 

My whole, the king of men. who led the hosts 

Of all his nation to the distant strife, 
Whom stricken held and tossing ocean spared, 

To fall, the victim of a faithless wife. 
His city is a heap of ruins now. 

Of his proud palace but the gates remain. 
But daring hands have oped his secret tomb — 

We gaze to-day upon his form again. 



A. W. 



26 CHARADES. 



CHARADE XX. 



My first, a gem of priceless worth, 

Possessed by all who dwell on earth ; 

A magic mirror, finely wrought, 

Reflects the wearer's inward thought. 

A pronoun, too, of such immensity, 

It hides all things by its intensity. 

My second everywhere is found, 

In palace, cot, upon the ground; 

'Tis dumb and blind, and without motion; 

It walks and talks — causes commotion, 

Pun and jollity, sometimes grief, 

In richest dress, or tatters brief. 

In heathen and in Christian lands, 

My whole your strongest love demands. 

Go stand before your mirror fair — 

You'll find your own reflected there. 

M. A. R 



CHARADES. 27 

CHARADE XXL 
Wherever thou goest, to East or to West, 
Be sure that thou of my first art possessed, 
Or else it shall chance, when setteth the sun. 
Thy travels shall end when they scarce have begun. 

In the country my second most often is found. 
Descending far down in the depths of the ground. 
Lo ! poets have sung it. and we, too. would fain 
Our affection express in melodious strain. 

My whole is a word that, to those that we love, 
We utter with sorrow and grief; 

But in leaving dull people, dull scenes, or dull books, 
'Tis breathed with a sigh of relief. 

C. C. E. 



THE IMPORTANT QUESTION. 

THIRTEEN BURIED FLOWERS. 

High upon a dais 

Young Arabella sat ; 
Her romantic lover 

Reclined upon a mat. 
Is it Hymen's altar 

That they converse about ? 
Where the torch is ready lighted, 

To show their wedding route. 
Ah ! no ! They are debating 

About her hat and feather — 
Few, she thinks, of roseate hue 

Can stand all kinds of weather. 
" Then let it be of blue, Bell, 

With crown turned up in knots ; 



THE IMPORTANT QUESTION. 



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Feathers ' neath the turned-up rim, 

Roses about in spots." 
' Of all things under the sun, 

Flowers are the most desired 
To bring the slope on your crown 

To the height by fashion required.' 
' Ah, my tasteful Aurelius, 

Thy wish I will obey, 
And call around at Stewart's 

And order one to-day." 



M. O. K. 



RIDDLES. 

RIDDLE I. 

God made Adam out of dust, 
But thought it best to make me first ; 
So I was made before the man, 
To answer God's most holy plan. 
My body he did make complete, 
Yet without legs, or arms, or feet. 
My ways and actions did control, 
And I was made without a soul. 
A living being I became — 
'Twas Adam gave to me my name ; 
Then from his presence I withdrew, 
Nor more of Adam ever knew. 
My Maker's laws I did obey, 
From them I never went astray ; 



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Thousands of miles I run a year, 
Yet never on the earth appear. 
Some merit God in me did see, 
And put a living soul in me. 
A soul from me my God did claim, 
And took from me that soul again ; 
And when from me that soul had fled. 
I was the same as when first made : 
And without soul, or hands, or feet, 
From pole to pole I journey fleet; 
I labor hard both day and night. 
To fallen men I give more light, 
Thousands of people, young and old, 
Will at my death great light behold. 
Xo fear of death doth trouble me, 
For future life I cannot see ; 
To heavenly rest I shall not go, 
Nor to the grave, nor hell below; 



32 KIDDLES. 

The Scriptures I cannot believe ; 
Although therein my name is found, 
They are to me an empty sound. 
And now, my friends, these lines you read, 
Search, then, the Scriptures with all speed, 
And if my name you find not there, 
'Twill be most strange, I do declare. 

RIDDLE II. 

"Sly positive first, 'tis a weapon of war, 

But it isn't the war-god alone who bears it; 
It flutters and waves in a lady's hat, 

And fastens the curls 'mid which she wears it; 
Brightly it shines when tempests part — 

Emblem of peace after passing storm — 
And sometimes it shines, and sometimes not, 

When we meet with it in its human form. 



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Now my comparative, hunt for it well ; 

'Tis a creature that gaily was hunted of yore ; 
'Tis the symbol of all that is dreadful in man — 

Far worse than the creature we spoke of before. 
My superlative now, if you've found out the rest, 

You may do it, and then will the whole be guessed. 

A. W. 



RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. 

FIFTEEN BURIED ANIMALS. 

At the door of a monastery stands a Jewish rabbi, talking to one 
of the monks. The monk eyes him with a scowl, and both are 
seemingly a little unfriendly. The rabbi begs for admission, which 
the monk thinks will be a risky thing to allow, and would rather not. 
"But, do get permission," says the rabbi, " or, at least, get me some 
water in that pan there, that I may wash ; or send me a cape to 
throw over me, and, after a nap, I go on my way, sorry that I came 
looking to such a house for hospitality. It will be a very hard thing 
to do, in my weariness, but I will not ask unkind people to grant me 
further favors. You won't catch me here again." M. O. K. 



WILLIAM'S MISHAP. 

TWENTY BURIED BIRDS. 

One lovely night, in Galena, William, returning from a hunt, fell 
on the turf in changing horses. His gun, half-cocked, was wrenched 
from his hand, and he ducked his head and felt his heart throb in his 
breast as the ball whizzed by him. His horse ran off; and, having 
sprained his ankle, he lay gazing about him. He saw the evening 
star lingering in the heavens, with here and there a gleam from the 
moon. He heard a cow lowing near him, and, not far off, pigs 
wallowing in the mire; and, what was pleasanter still, he heard a 
dove coo to his mate. But dismal thoughts crowded his brain, nor 
could anything rouse him from his despair — a singular kind of state 
for a sensible man to fall into. Day dawned at last, and he drew 
himself up so that he could scan a rye-field near by ; and, to his 
joy, beheld his dog Bob, a link between himself and home, coming 
towards him, with rushing, head-long bounds. Then what should 



36 William's mishap. 

befall — contrary to his hopes — but that Dick, his brother, should 
come along. ''Oh, Dick! " he cried, "you and Bob my fears dis- 
pel; I can cope with my troubles more easily now, and will make an 
effort to reach home." M. O. K. 



ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS. 

i. When made into little Pats. 

2. When there's a little Indian in it. 

3. He makes a little hare go a great way. 

4. The rain, dear ! 

5. They cut and run. 

6. They make people good for nothing. 

7. He leaves a wake behind him. 

8. It is so often crossed. 

9. They wring men's bosoms. 

10. When it is all on one side. 

11. When he left, the reign was over. 

12. When it chops. 

13. His head keeps him from going too far. 

14. A little London porter. 



38 ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS. 

15. That he was more plague than, prophet. 

16. He can't digest [die jest) now. 

17. Dog would. 

18. He takes an elixir (he licks her). 

19. Negroes. 

20. Eve ; at first she was Eve-angelical, and then she took to 
vestments. 

2.1. He was sometimes seen with Aaron (hair on) and sometimes 
without. 

22. It didn't answer. 

23. When I come to C U, I can't get any farther. 

24. Your eye, dear. 

25. He proposes to Bridge-it. 

26. No one could make out his policy. 

27. If you don't C sharp, you'll B flat. 

28. She'd Adam (had 'em). 

29. It's scum (It's come). 

30. When Henry VIII. dissolved the Pope's Bull. 



ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS. 39 

31. It is one of the great composers of modern times. 

32. She was cut out on purpose for him. 

53. First to axi-ounce a text, and then to ex-pound it. 

34. They are exiled (eggs-iled). 

35. I haven't a notion (an ocean). 

36. All the difference in the world. 

37. When she poaches eggs. 

38. To fold them. 

39. Ann, sir ! 

40. Like to be drowned. 

41. Ann-Dante. 

42. A tanner. 

43. It's melodious (it smell odious). 

44. His better-half is under ground. 

45. To mollify them. 

46. It rises in tiers. 

47. It makes a good ?nan-go. 

48. It's no-body. 



40 ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS. 

49. They go a-wailing. 

50. He always has a queer-eye (query). 

51. He is a sea-creeter of great size. 

52. To belles-lettres. 

53. She steals (steels) the heart. 

54. The minister and his suite. 

55. He is never touched. 

56. It is an immense ado (adieu). 

57. They have nine lives. 

58. You bamboozle him. 

59. She manages a goose. 

60. Pot-luck. 

61. He is sure to get sooted. 

62. It's a cattle line (Catiline). 

63. Turn him round till he is Dizzy. 

64. When it begins to hu?n. 

65. It's void of offence. 

66. He sailed about for forty days and nights before he came on 
Ararat, 



ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS. 



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67. 


When their little bills are all over dei 


68. 


It's a little fore'ard of the main hatch 


69. 


In violet (inviolate). 


70. 


Ram-rod. 


7i. 


Pull its tail. 


72. 


In-sat-i-ate. 


73- 


What-not. 



ANSWERS TO CHARADES. 



I 


Night-cap. 


II. 


Fan-Tom (Phantom) 


2 


Ave-rage. 


12. 


Be- gum. 


3 


Ape-rill. 


13- 


Main-spring. 


4 


Star-King. 


H. 


Pan-cake. 


5- 


Fid die- stick. 


15- 


Cork-screw. 


6 


Inn-fancy. 


16. 


Whit-sun-tide. 


7 


Mis-sis-sip-pi. 


17. 


Rose-Mary. 


S 


Inn-car (Incar). 


18. 


Neck-tar. 


9 


No-mad. 


19. 


Aga-memnon. 





Cob-web. 


20. 


Eye-doll (Idol). 



ANSWERS TO RIDDLES. 

1. A Whale. 

2. Bow, beau (positive). 
Boar, bore (comparative). 
Boast (superlative). 



BURIED FLOWERS. 



1. Daisy. 6. Rose. n. Peony. 

2. Clover. 7. Bluebell. 12. Laurel. 

3. Thyme. 8. Pink. 13. Calk. 

4. Orchis. 9. Primrose. 

5. Featherfew (vulgar). 10. Sunflower. 



BURIED ANIMALS. 



I. 


Rabbit. 


6. 


Rat. 


II. 


Pig. 


2. 


Monkey. 


7. 


Dog. 


12. 


Camel. 


3- 


Owl. 


8. 


Panther. 


13. 


Beaver 


4; 


Hare. 


9- 


Horse. 


14. 


Skunk. 


5- 


Bear. 


IO. 


Ape. 


*5- 


Cat. 



BURIED BIRDS. 



1. Nightingale. 

2. Finch. 

3. Cock. 

4. Wren. 

5. Duck. 

6. Robin. 

7. Starling. 



8. Eagle. 

9. Swallow. 

10. Coot. 

11. Crow. 

12. Grouse. 

13. Lark. 

14. Daw. 



15. Canary. 

16. Bob-a-link. 

17. Thrush. 

18. Falcon. 

19. Pelican. 

20. Pewit. 



RESISTING AN OFFICER. 

One- of our Franklin Avenue policemen, who had offered his 
hand to a young lady and been refused, arrested and took her to the 
station-house. "What is the charge against this woman?" asked 
the captain. " Resisting an offer, sir," was the reply. No one 
can resist an offer made by the " Famous " when you are looking for 
a suit of clothes for your little boy, or a pair of shoes for yourself. 

705 and 707 Franklin Avenue. 



A prominent lawyer, who made it a rule to appeal all cases which 
were decided against him, became a widower. After a brief period he 
began to show signs of being in the it vealy^ state. Being met one 
day by an acquaintance, he was chaffed a little by being told he was 
courting again. "Not exactly; I am only moving for a new trial." 
Make anew trial at the " Famous " Boys' Department, of a suit. 
You will surely win. 

705 and 707 Franklin Avenue. 



SCHOOL OF DESIGN 

OF THE 

ST. LOUIS ART SOCIETY, 

GRANITE BUILDING, 

Cor. Fourth and Market Streets. 



Lessons given in Drawing, Oil, Porcelain, and Water- Color 
Painting, Wood Carving, and Kensington Embroidery. 

Especial attention is paid to getting orders for pupils who do good 
work. 



WEDDING AND H0D1DAY PRESENTS. 



PETTES & LEATHE 

Have received their importations for the season of 
FINE PAINTINGS, 

ENGRAVINGS, 

PHOTOGRAVURES, 

WATER COLORS, 

COLORED PHOTOGRAPHS, Etc., 
Xew and artistic designs in 

PICTURE FRAMES AND MOULDINGS, 

(Their own patterns,) 

Xot to be found elsewhere. Their stock is larger and more attractive 
than ever before offered by them. 



PRICES VERY MUCH LOWER. 



Early selections are recommended to avoid the hurry and confusion of 
the latter part of the season. 
Purchases reserved until the delivery is ordered. 



ESTABLISHED 1846. INCORPORATED 1875. 

CHEEVER, BURCHARD k CO., 



DEALERS IN 



Table and Pocket Cutlery, 

Razors, scissors, etc. 



SILVER-PLATED WARE 

.A. SPECIALTY. 

508 N. FOURTH STREET, ST. LOUIS. 

MANUFACTURERS OF BIRD CAGES, AID AGENTS FOR 

WHITNEY'S BABY CARRIAGES. 



BEST ASSORTMENT 

OF 

IBOOTS cfe !3 ZHI O IE3 J3 7 

IN ST. LOUIS, AT THE 

MOUND CITY SHOE STORE, 

411 N. FOURTH STREET. 

CHAS. A. FOWLE & CO., 

JOBBERS OF 

FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC., 

406 North Fourth Street, 

CHAS. A. FOWLE. CT T OTTTS MO 

JAMES W. FOWLE. »*-> ± • J— 'V-^ U lO, IVIKJ . 



PROP'S ST. BERNARD DOLLAR STORE. 



TIHIIE] ZLsTZE-W KID G-LOYE 

"FRANCOIS." 

WILLIAM BARR & CO., 
ST. LOUIS, 

SOLE A <3- IE IST T S . 

WHAT WE CLAIM FOR IT 

1st. That the Glove is manufactured from first quality selected skins. 

2d. The Skin being tirst quality and of uniform elasticity, insures the 
Gloves being uniform in size anddit. 

3d. The Sewing is strong and double lock-stitch. 

4th. The shades are perfect. 

5th. That the " FRANCOIS " is the best Glove ever sold in St. Louis. 

Our stock is now complete in 3, 4, and 6 Buttoned. FRANCOIS' Black 
Kid Gloves, 3 and 4 Buttoned, Short and Long Fingers. The FRANCOIS' 
Glove is equal in size to " Trefousse," " Nonpareil," or, " Semper Idem." 
WILLIAM BARR & CO warrant every pair, and ask of their patrons and 
the Public a trial, as they know this to be the Best Quality Glove Imported. 

We have also in our Glove Department full lines of other "first-class 
brands," and superior goods from the lowest prices up. 

WILLIAM BARR & CO., 

Importers and Retailers of 

IDBY GOODS, 

Fourth and Third, bet. Vine and St. Charles Streets, 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 



Important Information. 



We beg to inform the readers of this little volume that next year 
it is the purpose of the 

SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY 

to open in their new store, corner of Ninth and Washington Avenue, 
a full and complete House-Furnishing Department, where every- 
thing in that line will be found at such low prices as must attract the 
attention of all good housekeepers who desire to save money and 
get rich. An enterprise of this kind, located, as it is, a "little off" 
the regular retail thoroughfares, must be made attractive to the 
public by 

LOW PRICES, 

and these gentlemen fully understand that fact, and hope to sell their 
goods at so much less than is usually asked for such articles as to 
attract the buyers from all parts of the city. Their motto will be 

-CASH AND LOW PRICES." 



OTTIR, S-A-ILIES OIF 1 

DIAMONDS, POTTERIES, 

SILVERWARE AND WATCHES, 

Are greater than ever before in the history of our establishment, which 
is owing to our new system of doing business: Marking every article in 
plain figures, but one price to all, and that price but a small commission on 
net cost. 

MERMOD, JACCARD & CO., 

Cor. Fourth and Locust Streets. 

4®= Elegant stock of Silk Umbrellas, from $3.50 to $18. 

SOOJ5T ESADY. 



THE STORY 

GERMAN LITERATURE. 

By Pkof. JAMES K. HOSMER. 

Large 12mo., pp. 575. Price, $2.25. 
G. I. JONES & CO., Publishers, 

ST. LOUIS, MO 



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